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Sunday we celebrate Earth Day, the first being in 1970. It is

credited with launching the modern environmental movement.

Recycling is another benefit from this celebration.

The following Friday will be Arbor Day. A great week to plant trees

and shrubs,if Mother Nature will just cooperate! It may be

snowing again as you read this!

Can you believe Craig Kimbell and Larry Boardman are 

turning 60? Friends gathered to help them celebrate at the

Duncan Building Saturday night. Always learn something

from these guys!

Unadilla native Rochelle Rohlfs has been named for 2018

induction into the Nebraska High School Sports Athletic Hall of

Fame on September 23, 2018 at East High School in Lincoln.

Unadilla residents remember Rochelle as the pitcher for our

girls' softball team for 8 years. She received All-State and

All-Conference honors in basketball and volleyball at SDA

and was a medalist on the 1985 state champion track team in

the discus event. She won the American Legion Scholar

Athlete Award and Athlete of the Year honors her senior year.

Rochelle then played volleyball, softball and basketball for

Peru State during her collegiate athletic career.

Rochelle spent her entire coaching career at Omaha Marian

High School, coaching volleyball for 26 years and soccer for 

2 years. Her soccer team was state runner-up both of those

years, and in volleyball her teams won 4 state championships,

4 state runner-up titles, played in 21 state tournaments, and had

an overall total of 718 wins.

Named 2014 Nebraska Girls' Coach of the Year and in 2016,

Rochelle was named one of the top 5 coaches of girls' sports

in the nation by the USHSAA. In the 2015-2016 school year she

was promoted to Athletic Director and Assistant Principal at

Omaha Marian High School, the position she holds today.

We are huge fans! Congratulations Rochelle!

Bob Brandt will again sponsor the community garden west of

Nitty Gritty. Participants need to keep their plot weed free, and

you must give half your crops to the residents of Unadilla who 

are over 70 or disabled. Please let Bob know if you would like

to receive some of this bounty at 402-269-7272.

We're coming up on that time of year again!

Contact Peggy Leefers about the Unadilla Alumni Dinner.

Here is the SDA flyer:

Continued get well wishes to Roland Rodaway, Rich Lechner,

Bill Davis, and Sheila Glathar.

Sheila, husband Greg, and daughter Kortlyn have lived at

984 G Street in Unadilla for the last 3 years. Sheila was diagnosed

with breast cancer in January. She is currently undergoing chemo

with surgery planned for this summer. All proceeds will go towards

medical bills and expenses. Sheila is a Physical Therapist at CHI

Health in Lincoln and is currently on a leave of absence, concentrating

on fighting this battle. Please help however you can.

www.sheilasquad.com

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

4-18   Baillie Luff, Tracy Kastens Meyer

4-20   Craig Kimbell, Joe Hassler

4-21   Ruth Wilhelm, Larry Boardman

4-22   Penny Richter

4-23   Kirk Liesemeyer, Lois Chadwick, Nina Jean Rohlfs,

Rod Boardman

4-24   Marvin Vodicka, Mary Boardman Hanke

NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO

Friday, 4-19-1918, The Otoe Union:

George Driver was training with the Hospital Corps at Des Moines.

George Brandt was home on leave from Camp Funston.

"Ask Harvey West about his package - maybe a straw hat?"

Miss Elizabeth Miller resigned her teaching position in the

Unadilla school to take up government work. Mumps were

"making the rounds."

NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS